The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-08-26
Tae 9ailg 9nlletin.
FRIDAY. AUG. 20, 1887.
OUR PARIS LETTER.

18th July proved kind of De Pro-
funds for the ex-war minister. His
popularity was tested at the Bots
de Boulogne, it had no wots in real
public opinion, save the crowd
which sings and whistles and hur-
rahs. The question of Grevy VS..
Boulanger, was settled at the mill
tary review, and the President won
by long odds. His victory was
greatly facilitated by Boulanger
having been abandoned by his
"staunch political friends" The
prime minister Rouvier played the
trump card, namely: that French
men, and especially republicans,
had not the slightest desire to DRIFT
into a one-man system of govern
ment, whether civil or military. The
soil of France is no longer favorable
TO the growth of Caesars; the army
is not patrician but citizens; it ORR
CLIMATES from the people and returns
to the people. Having become mis-
tress of itself, the nation has just
now shown, by the hurting Of Cen
eral Boulanger from the Tarpeian
Rock, that it has no real desire to
abdicate its sovereignty in favor OF
any notoriety were such even
Richelieu, a Napoleon or a Bis
marck. One fact is certain, Bou-
LANCER will not reviendra; he is
another smashed idol.
1t must not be forgotten, that
France is at present acting history.
Her governing classes seem to have
taken new departure; the Plain,
has decided to courageously grapple
with the Mountain party, while
never receding in the path of lib
eral advance, or abating one jot or
title in their devotion for the re-
public. Evidently, Messrs. Roche
fort and Deroulede do not represent
any serious stratum of opinion. Nj.
Rouvier aims to succeed in galva-
nizing Gambetta's ideal, of licking
the fragmented political programmes
into broad, national party, where
hatred, revenge, and intolerance
would be banished. A party, not
of combat, but of pacifcation, and
thus be enabled to be a government
of reform and business. This would
make government an institution OF
justice and progress, rising above
all coteries; the equitable arbitrator
of-all rights and interests the coin
mon property and the common glory
of every Frenchmen. If this end
can be achieved, the meteoric popu-
larity of Boulanger will have done
good.
The diplomatic defeat of England
at Constantinople is palatable to the
French, and not displeasing to the
British, and yet neither nation is
satisfied. In trying to get out OF
the Nile Valley, John Bull is
crossed to be kept in. The French
Journals abstain from INDUCING III
anything like glee in a collapse
Bismarck is as usual viewed as play
ing deep game. There is view
of the eternal Eastern question max
ing way, and which is not all pooh
poohed, namely; since the Silent
Turk keep Europe in permanent hot
water, and is considered by no one
to be destined for longevity, why
not have the inevitable big eviction
r fight, and then the battle for the
heritage? Public opinion is becom
r ing nevrose from so long living il
an atmosphere of sposmodic peace
eff it were done, when it is done
: then it were well it was done
quickly"
A second view is, that England
the central powers and Italy. will
take up a non possumus attitude
and leave Russia and France tt
5 launch their joint programmes, fo
dealing with the Egyptian and othe
questions. Bismarck's game is, tt
draw the Russo-Franco entente cor
dale; he believes the Muscovite i
only flirting with France to float
loan. 1t is accepted here as gos
pei, that something between a goo
understanding and an alliance, eX
lists between England, Germany
and China, as to how to deal wit
the white Gar under certain contin
gencies. Bismarck wants above all
to keep France isolated, and by col
nering Russia, France would b
compelled to show her hand. How
}. ever, while nothing is more naturs
than that France should make u
for herself--like other powers
friends of the mammon of unrlght
c eousness, the Chancellor will find h
is in error in concluding, the Frenc
desire war, or that the politics
= roughs represent the governin
L classes of the country.
With steam-hammer pertinacity
that grand old isthmus warrior, N
de Lesseps, continues pegging ava
at his Panama canal. He keeE
! never minding the attacks on til
k scheme; the more it is demonstrs
d ted-to the satisfaction of the de
If monstrators-the impossibility t
e achieve the undertaking, the nor
e, e M. de Lesseps replies, by reportin
progress, with photos of the wor
N and labor done short of bringin
shareholders to the isthmus itsel
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